Saturday, 15 January 2011

NORFOLK WEEKEND PART 1

We arrived at Thornham point at 8am Saturday morning with rob stokes and straight away we saw two ringtail Hen harriers moving east over the marsh, and then are first target bird of the weekend the Northernharrier came into sight and passing by about hundred yards away. Rob then picked up a Barnowl hunting to our left also two Egyption goose flew into the field were there were curlews feeding over birds noted were

Waxwing

Marsh harriers

Brent goose

buzzard

allot of Pink footed goose

We then moved on to Burnham ovary hoping to find a Rough legged buzzard Robspotted a possible one sitting on a gate post a long way of to far to id ,

Grey partridge

Wigeon

Brent goose

6 waxwings

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Twite

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After that little disappointment we moved on to tichwell RSPB reserve, on the way down to the visitor center we had one Whooper swan with 8 Muteswans at the visitor center we had a very confident Robin also over birds noted were Siskins, Chaffinches and greenfinches

on the reserve we got good views of a lone Spotted redshank and 7 Marsh harrier then we moved to the hide were we got good views of

40 Twite,

Skylarks

meadow pipits

shame the hide was so packed with people which made it hard to see much , so we moved on to the over hide opposite were we noted